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Fitzgerald Leaves Repair Yard Three Years After Collision

Fitzgerald Leaves Repair Yard Three Years After Collision
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) prepares to depart Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Shipbuilding division’s Pascagoula shipyard on June 13 to return to its homeport in San Diego after over two years of repairs. (Photo: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

The USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) left a Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] shipyard on June 13, almost exactly three years after a deadly collision off the coast of Japan. DDG-62 collided with a merchant ship in June 2017, leading to the death of seven sailors (Defense Daily, June 18, 2017). It was eventually loaded on a heavy lift vessel and transported to HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. The ship reached the yard and repairs began in January 2018 (Defense Daily,…

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